:: Book recommendations

Click here for Pastor Simon’s recommendations at GoodReads

  :: Christianity and Culture

VanDrunen’s lecture on his new book – Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law (Eerdmans, 2014) – delivered at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University

The Two Kingdoms: A Biblical Paradigm for Christianity and Culture (theology)

God’s Pilgrims in Contemporary Society (practice)

Recovering the Calvin of two kingdoms in the South African context – Lecture by dr Simon Jooste at George Whitefield College on his PHD thesis

:: Prayer

Why should Reformed Christians pray?

Luther on prayer

Calvin on prayer

What is prayer?

:: The Reformed tradition

The Reformed tradition contrasted with evangelical tradition (by Darryl Hart)

What is Reformed worship?

Why should Reformed Christians pray?

Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?

Discover a better way of worship?

Planting a Reformed church

Techniques of church growth

Marketing the church

:: Resources on covenant theology

Diagram of the timeline of the covenants

Introduction to covenant theology: Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored by Brown and Keele.

Covenant theology and 2K resources

Christ in the covenants

Baptise infants?

:: Church and Worship

Who needs systematic theology?

To turn the cheek or not? (Matt.5)

Christless Christianity?

Addiction and the cross

The importance of preaching

Luther’s Commentary on Galatians

The Church and Israel

The righteousness of faith

Hungering & thirsting after righteousness

Centrality of the means of grace

Techniques of church growth

Law and gospel

Theology drives worship

The regulative principle of worship?

What is Reformed worship?

Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?

Discover a better way of worship?

Resource of the week: WHI

Baptise infants?

Planting a Reformed church

Reformation – Then and Now

Marketing the church

Why we have creeds and confessions?

The character of worship

The Need for True Worship

God cares about our worship

Redemptive-historical preaching

Elder qualifications and preaching

Preaching and Biblical counseling

:: For some other online resources worth checking out:

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Westminster Seminary, CA, online resources

Modern Reformation Magazine

The White Horse Inn